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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 12: Finder vol 2
Volume two? Yeah, I’ve read the first volume already. Oh, did you like it? Doesn’t seem like your type of thing. I hated it. Huh? Why’d you buy volume two then? It was cheap? I don’t know! Finder: Cage...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 13: Kiss Blue vol 1-2
My first two whole volumes other than Kizuna! Kiss Blue Volumes 1 and 2 by Keiko Kinoshita Okay, so Kiss Blue is a bit more BL with touches of yaoi, but that’s fine. (I kind of just lump them both...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 14: A Love Song for the Miserable
No, fair readers, I did not forget you today. I just found myself busier than usual today! A Love Song for the Miserable by Yukimura Asada, a hopeful young businessman, has gotten depressed because...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 15: Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights by Sachi Murakami Sleepless Nights is about a high school boy named Miyabi who works in a convenience store in a heavily gay area of town. He’s very used to gay men cruising in the...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 16: Mr. Convenience
Passover begins tonight, and so the most difficult period of my 30 Day Yaoi Challenge begins! (First there’s tonight’s Passover seder cutting into my reading time, then there’s Wondercon this weekend,...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 17: Sword Euphemisms Everywhere
I did it. I dropped the ball and took a one day break from the 30 Day Yaoi Challenge. I’m disappointed with myself. Though, if I may forgive myself here, there wasn’t much of a chance for me to read...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 18: Kizuna vol 3
Kizuna… You almost managed to stay away from rape. Almost… Kizuna volume 3 by Kazuma Kodaka The last volume left of with Kei being knocked out by some thugs, one of whom is impersonating his half...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 19: You Call That Shy?
Shy Intentions by Syouko Takaku Yoshiyuki, a middle school art teacher is visiting his dying mother in the hospital when he runs into the enigmatic Kaoru, who is taken by his beauty. Yoshiyuki is in no...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 20: Male Models Everywhere!
Restart by Shouko Hidaka Tadashi is a male model who is feeling very down on his luck. In addition to being rejected at a bunch of auditions, one of his fellow models, Aki, is ignoring him after they...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge Going on Hiatus
Hi everyone, Thank you to all of you who have supported and enjoyed my 30 Day Yaoi Challenge thus far. It has been a great success for me in terms of getting an education in yaoi manga and making me...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 21: I’m Not Gay, But…
Hi everyone! I’ve returned to the 30 Day Yaoi Challenge as promised! Only slightly late because yesterday I spent the time I meant to be blogging on dealing with back pain instead. (I am having...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 22: A Case of the Blahs
Yeah, I kind of purposefully forgot to post yesterday. I needed too. I was just too spaced out. I can’t say this next manga did anything to inspire my inner writer… Love Circumstances by Aco Oumi This...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 23: A Cock of Peerless Beauty
Yeah, you read that blog title right. Thank goodness for this crack. I was starting to get really, really bored. I’ve Seen It All volumes 1 & 2 by Shoko Takaku Chihiro is a doctor specializing in...
View Article30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 24: Love Makes Everything Creepy
Yeah, I’m being reaaaaaaaaal bad about finishing up this challenge, but I have a legit excuse: I was working my part-time job and house-sitting for 4 days. The house-sitting included dog-sitting, so I...
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Kaori Yuki MMF: I Think I’ll Stick to the Victorian Goth Manga
Another Manga Movable Feast is rolling by this week and it’s about another mangaka (Kaori Yuki) whose seminal work I haven’t read in its entirety. Luckily, this time I’m prepared! I just happen to have...
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30 Day Yaoi Challenge, Day 25: Kizuna volume 4
Y’know, I should just stop making promises about when this yaoi challenge is going to wrap up. But, I do expect to have more time to read manga this upcoming week, so maybe it’ll happen sooner that I...
View Article5 Reasons Why Anime Expo 2013 Was Good For Manga
So, for a while I’ve found anime cons to be a little depressing as a huge manga nerd. Very few manga panels, very few manga sellers in the dealers’ hall and a lot of publishers had relatively negative...
View ArticleDepression and the Common Freelance Manga Editor
To most readers, I’m sure this blog seems like it’s half-dead. I haven’t posted since July and the last time I was able to post frequently was April. Before that, it was sometime in 2012. There is a...
View ArticleHetalia’s Version of History: What Does It Offer Readers?
Full disclaimer: I work for TOKYOPOP as an editor, and I have worked on every print volume of Hetalia thus far. But I do enjoy Hetalia as a manga fan, and as a history nerd, and so this post is written...
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Debate: Does the “Artist Tax” Negate Pirating?
Recently, my best friend came to visit me for a week and -as is tradition whenever we see each other- we marathoned a show together. This time we settled on watching Princess Jellyfish, one of my...
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